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Introducing our 75th In Focus interview and our analogue community grant winner, Federico Pestilli. Pestilli was born in Rome and became interested in documentary-style of photography, focusing on irony that unites people, places and symbols with each other.
Section 1 - Background
Share your favourite image / print shot on ILFORD film and tell us what it means to you?
Heritage - Arianna - Cocullo, Italy - Pentax 67, 135mm lens - HP5+
This is an image of Arianna, a snake handler from the town of Cocul...
Oh, crap! What have I done?
Let’s see. I committed to do a solo photography show, with twenty-seven images. All twenty-seven are 4x5 black and white negatives, so they need to be darkroom printed. And those will be 20x24 prints. Yeah, and I need to have them matted and framed. The icing on the cake? I have just under three months to do this.
Yep, this is going to be an interesting project. But let’s back up to the beginning.
The Event
It was April 2023, three years after the pand...
We didn't set a theme for this week's #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites. It was a popular week with many fantastic entries, which we enjoyed looking through this morning. A huge thank you to everyone who shared their images.
@peter_durst. Tarahne Hasselblad 500CM Zeiss Sonnar 150mm f4. Pan F Atlin, Northern British Columbia #believeinfilm #filmphotography #themefree #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites.
@PhlStrchn. For this week's #ilfordphoto #themefree #fridayfavourites I'm sharing a ph...
I Instantly Fell In Love
My photography journey began while I was studying graphic design. My course tutor handed me a camera & a roll of ILFORD HP5+, and sent me out, with no real brief, to ‘take some pictures’. Armed with a macro lens I roamed around the cities’ botanical gardens and became lost in a close-up world of symmetrical patterns, found in the plant life. When I returned, with my roll of film, to the photography department darkroom, I instantly fell in love with the process and the res...
Winning The Competition
I was in Oracabessa, Jamaica when I won this competition. My rollerskating community back in London was spreading the word far and wide about this vote at skate rinks and events, and amongst their family members and colleagues. I virtually reached out to nearly every person I’d ever met, asking them to help me win ILFORD'S Community Grant of £500 worth of film and equipment. That experience really showed me the power of community. Ever since then, I’ve been making this project ...
My K1000
I began taking photographs in the late 1980s as a teenager when my dad bought me a Pentax K1000. Both my dad and grandpa enjoyed photography, were big influences on me, and my dad wanted to share the excitement of photography. We enjoyed taking photographs, mainly of landscapes and of places that we visited, me with my K1000 and my dad with his Canon AE-1. When digital cameras became the standard in the early 2000s, we drifted away from film and instead became enamored with this quick and comparat...
The Main Topics
My name is Maria Guțu I am a Moldovan born and based photographer, focusing on long term documentary projects. In 2022 I finished my studies at the Docdocdoc School of Modern Photography, Saint Petersburg, earlier, in 2020 I graduated in cinematography at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts from Chisinau, Moldova where I have been studying for 4 years. The main topics in my work are remote places, youth, the notion of the home and the relation between humans and the environment...
The product focus for #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites theme was #dp400in35mm. We wanted to see your masterpeices shot on ILFORD Delta 400 Professional in 35mm!
@timdobbsphoto. "Royal Enfield" .. Leica M2, 35mm on ilford Delta 400 for #fridayfavourites #dp400in35mm.
@serolfitnas. Canon T70, Delta 400 #fridayfavourites #dp400in35mm.
@behindthebluemotel.com. Oh boy, if we're doing #dp400in35mm for #fridayfavourites this week where do I even start?
@papashitty...